Advisor and Co-Advisor (Graduate Students)
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Shivani Upadhyay, Ph.D. student, Computer Science, University of Waterloo |
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Manveer Singh Tamber, Ph.D. student, Computer Science, University of Waterloo |
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Sahel Sharifymoghaddam, Ph.D. student, Computer Science, University of Waterloo |
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Nandan Thakur, Ph.D. student, Computer Science, University of Waterloo |
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Qiutong (Glen) Yu, Ph.D. student, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Waterloo |
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Xueguang Ma, Ph.D. student, Computer Science, University of Waterloo |
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Sheng-Chieh (Jack) Lin, Ph.D. student, Computer Science, University of Waterloo |
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Ronak Pradeep, Ph.D. student, Computer Science, University of Waterloo |
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Jheng-Hong (Matt) Yang, Ph.D. student, Computer Science, University of Waterloo |
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Xinyu (Crystina) Zhang, Ph.D. student, Computer Science, University of Waterloo |
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Akintunde Oladipo, MMath, Computer Science, University of Waterloo Completed August 2024 Thesis: Scaling Pre-Training Data & Language Models for African Languages |
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Minghan Li, Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Waterloo Completed August 2024 Thesis: Pretrained Transformers for Efficient and Robust Information Retrieval |
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Mofetoluwa Adeyemi, MMath, Computer Science, University of Waterloo Completed April 2024 Thesis: Facilitating Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval Evaluations for African Languages |
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Luyun (Aileen) Lin, MMath, Computer Science, University of Waterloo Completed December 2023 Thesis: An In-Depth Exploration of the High-Quality Entity Linking for Information Retrieval: MMEAD |
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Wei Zhong, Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Waterloo Completed September 2023 Thesis: Effective Math-Aware Ad-Hoc Retrieval based on Structure Search and Semantic Similarities |
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Yuqing (Sherry) Xie, Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Waterloo (with Ming Li) Completed September 2023 Thesis: Information Access Using Neural Networks For Diverse Domains And Sources |
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Zhiying Jiang, Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Waterloo Completed August 2023 Thesis: Less is More: Restricted Representations for Better Interpretability and Generalizability |
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Odunayo Ogundepo, MMath, Computer Science, University of Waterloo Completed April 2023 Thesis: Enabling Cross-lingual Information Retrieval for African Languages |
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Peng Shi, Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Waterloo Completed January 2023 Thesis: Facilitating Information Access for Heterogeneous Data Across Many Languages |
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Ji Xin, Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Waterloo (with Yaoliang Yu) Completed January 2023 Thesis: Efficient Inference of Transformers in Natural Language Processing: Early Exiting and Beyond |
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Kelechi Ogueji, MMath, Computer Science, University of Waterloo Completed August 2022 Thesis: AfriBERTa: Towards Viable Multilingual Language Models for Low-resource Languages |
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Yuqi Liu, MMath, Data Science, University of Waterloo Completed August 2022 Thesis: Simple Yet Effective Pseudo Relevance Feedback with Rocchio’s Technique and Text Classification |
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Chengcheng (Stephanie) Hu, MMath, Computer Science, University of Waterloo Completed April 2022 Thesis: Learning to Rank in the Age of Muppets |
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Anup Anand Deshmukh, MMath, Computer Science, University of Waterloo (with Ming Li) Completed September 2021 Thesis: Unsupervised Syntactic Structure Induction in Natural Language Processing |
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Xinyu (Mavis) Liu, MMath, Computer Science, University of Waterloo Completed April 2021 Thesis: Total Relation Recall: High-Recall Relation Extraction |
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Ashutosh Adhikari, MMath, Computer Science, University of Waterloo (with Pascal Poupart) Completed December 2020 Thesis: Generalization on Text-based Games using Structured Belief Representations |
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Hsiu-Wei Yang, MMath, Computer Science, University of Waterloo Completed December 2020 Thesis: Cross-Lingual Entity Matching for Knowledge Graphs |
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Linqing Liu, MMath, Computer Science, University of Waterloo Completed September 2020 Thesis: Towards Effective Utilization of Pretrained Language Models — Knowledge Distillation from BERT |
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Achyudh Ram, MMath, Computer Science, University of Waterloo (with Mei Nagappan) Completed July 2020 Thesis: Exploiting Token and Path-based Representations of Code for Identifying Security-Relevant Commits |
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Ryan Clancy, MMath, Computer Science, University of Waterloo Completed April 2020 Thesis: dstlr: Scalable Knowledge Graph Construction from Text Collections |
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Martin Gauch, MMath, Computer Science, University of Waterloo Completed April 2020 Thesis: Machine Learning for Streamflow Prediction |
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Jaejun (Brandon) Lee, MMath, Computer Science, University of Waterloo Completed December 2019 Thesis: Honkling: In-Browser Personalization for Ubiquitous Keyword Spotting |
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Zeynep Akkalyoncu Yilmaz, MMath, Computer Science, University of Waterloo Completed December 2019 Thesis: Cross-Domain Sentence Modeling for Relevance Transfer with BERT |
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Hamidreza Shahidi, MMath, Computer Science, University of Waterloo (with Ming Li) Completed August 2019 Thesis: Neural Text Generation from Structured and Unstructured Data |
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Wei (Victor) Yang, MMath, Computer Science, University of Waterloo Completed April 2019 Thesis: End-to-End Neural Information Retrieval |
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Youngbin Kim, MMath, Computer Science, University of Waterloo Completed August 2018 Thesis: Serverless Data Analytics with Flint |
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Royal Sequiera, MMath, Computer Science, University of Waterloo Completed August 2018 Thesis: Simple Convolutional Neural Networks with Linguistically-Annotated Input for Answer Selection in Question Answering |
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Jinfeng Rao, Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Maryland Completed June 2018 Dissertation: Temporal Context Modeling for Text Streams |
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Kareem El Gebaly, Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Waterloo (with Ashraf Aboulnaga and Lukasz Golab) Complete May 2018 Thesis: Analytics for Everyone |
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Zhucheng (Michael) Tu, MMath, Computer Science, University of Waterloo Completed May 2018 Thesis: An Experimental Analysis of Multi-Perspective Convolutional Neural Networks |
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Hua He, Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Maryland Completed February 2018 Dissertation: Architecture, Models, and Algorithms for Textual Similarity |
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Yulu Wang, Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Maryland Completed January 2018 Dissertation: Selective Search Architectures and Brute Force Scan Techniques for Summarizing Social Media Posts |
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Salman Mohammed, MMath, Computer Science, University of Waterloo Completed December 2017 Thesis: The Limited Effectiveness of Neural Networks for Simple Question Answering on Knowledge Graphs |
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K. Ashwin Kumar, Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Maryland (with Amol Deshpande) Completed November 2014 Dissertation: Minimizing Resource Consumption through Workload Consolidation in Large-Scale Distributed Data Platforms |
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Ferhan Ture, Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Maryland Completed June 2013 Dissertation: Searching to Translate and Translating to Search: When Information Retrieval Meets Machine Translation |
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Sebastian Nima Bruch (née Asadi), Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Maryland Completed May 2013 Dissertation: Multi-Stage Search Architectures for Streaming Documents |
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Lidan Wang, Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Maryland (with Doug Oard) Completed August 2012 Dissertation: Learning to Efficiently Rank |
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Tim Hawes, M.S., Linguistics, University of Maryland (with Philip Resnik) Completed September 2009 Thesis: Computational Analysis of the Conversational Dynamics of the United States Supreme Court |
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David Zajic, Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Maryland (with Bonnie Dorr) Completed April 2007 Dissertation: Multiple Alternative Sentence Compression as a Tool for Automatic Summarization Tasks Associate Research Scientist, Center for Advanced Study of Language (CASL), University of Maryland |
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Dina Demner-Fushman,
Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Maryland (with Doug Oard) Completed September 2006 Dissertation: Complex Question Answering Based on Semantic Domain Model of Clinical Medicine Staff Scientist, Lister Hill Center, National Library of Medicine |
